Show Page 4 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday March 20 1999 i'im i i SLOC ‘mystery man’ says little over accusations SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former from Salt Lake's largesse He denies he received $270000 in cash shopping Olympic bid employee Jason Gull has little to say about accusations this week by Ganga of The Republic of Congo ousted Wednesday from the International Olympic Committee “From the source of the information 1 wouldn't deem it very credible” said Jcan-Ciau- Gull contacted Friday in Hartford Conn At a Lausanne Switzerland press conference before he was expelled on an 88-- 2 vote Ganga accused some Salt Lake bid committee workers of seeking reimbursement for items they bought for themselves Ganga singled out Gull and suggested that Gull and his wife coaxed Ganga's wife to join them on a trip to Las Vegas and then Gull wrote it up for reimbursement as a trip by Ganga his wife and molhcr-in-Ia- sprees travel and medical expenses and claimed he was the victim of a plot against African IOC members Gull who left the Salt Lake Organizing Committee nearly three years ago has doggedly refused to talk about his role in the bid committee's campaign to win the 2002 Winter Games A 1998 graduate of Yale University's graduate school of management Gull now works for an investment management company He declined to be interviewed in any detail on Friday or to say whether he has been subpoenaed or interviewed by w Ganga was pegged by a Salt Lake ethics panel earlier this winter as the IOC member who benefited the most investigators from the Department of Justice looking into the scandal Gull also had refused to talk to the Salt Lake ethics panel that spent six weeks investigating the bid He is on the list of those the Utah attorney general’s office wants to talk to said Reed Richards assistant attorney general “I was a small player I was a driver and translator 1 had no decision-makin- g role It was my first job out of college and I’m on to other things now" Gull said “I'd rather stay out of the spotlight as much as possible" Yet the spotlight has shone on him several times this winter as investigators interviewed former employees and pored over documents hinting at the cozy relationships between those who sought the Olympics and IOC members whose votes made it happen The ethics panel described Gull as one of three bid employees in charge of IOC members visits to Salt Lake As a fresh graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in comparative literature and a fluency in French Gull joined the bid committee full time in the summer of 1993 He fast became a key foot soldier In 199S he described to a reporter how he Polish book about found an World War II for an IOC member with a nt in Utah's Weber County keen interest in history and of the exhausting job of driving Salt Lake's bidders around Norway during Lilleham-mer- 's 1 994 Winter Games According to documents included in the report of the Salt Lake ethics panel Gull was trying to attract the son of a Romanian IOC member to work for either of two Utah universities Andrej Siperco son of Alexandra Sipcrco of Romania rejected the help when he realized the bidders were trying to give him money Documents also show Gull was the one who saw to it there were a Christmas tree decorations and presents in the condominium to greet IOC member Phil Coles of Australia when he arrived for his 199S vacation at Deer Valley Resort Gull's indulgence of IOC members continued even after the bid committee became the SLOC In a July 1996 letter Gull told Ganga of hotel reservations he'd made for Ganga in New York and updated him on his 1995 land investment "The first sale will be within two weeks The sale of the second land plot will be quickly thereafter So you should get back your initial investment (the $73000) within a few weeks The third land plot will be pure profit for you you make approximately $43000 profit on the investment" Gull wrote to Ganga As it turned out Ganga realized $60000 on the investment but it took until the end of last year for the three parcels to sell Gull also surfaced this winter as the source of rumors that the bid committee had hired prostitutes for IOC members He told attorneys for the SLOC in a letter that he did not arrange escorts and knew nothing about the rumor said one of the attorneys Beth Wilkinson On Friday Gull described his job for the bid committee as merely that of an assistant “I was given projects to do" In brief County threatens to reopen dirt road Man shot to death by upstairs neighbor with misfiring gun TAYLORSVILLE (AP) — A Taylorsville man was shot to death Friday when his upstairs neighbor accidentally fired a gun through the floor Kenneth E Howard 38 was apparently sitting in his armchair watching the morning news when the 9 mm bullet struck him in the chest Police say hejust happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time James Bolton 19 was visiting friends in the upstairs apartment and was handling a gun when it apparently discharged into tnc floor around 6:30 am said Salt Lake County sheriff’s deputy Peggy Faulkner After being shot Howard walked about 10 steps towards the bathroom before collapsing on the floor Faulkner said Bolton's friends immediately called police It was an hour later however before authorities found the victim in the downstairs apartment Bolton who lives nearby fled after the shooting and was being sought for questioning Friday Faulkner said SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — San Juan County is threatening to d dirt roads open some in the Grand Gulch and the Cedar Mesa area the latest volley in its battle with the federal government over control of rural roads "We are surprised and very disappointed the county would want long-close- Gas fumes force evacuations SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For the second straight day strong gas fumes chased workers from a business and students from a school Friday on the north end of the city The odor drove 217 employees from the Southwest Airlines Reservation Center complaining of nausea vomiting and headaches Southwest spokeswoman Ginger Hardage said paramedics treated the employees outside the building and 12 workers were taken to area hospitals Paramedics also treated students at Washington Elementary School just south of a Chevron refinery that was blamed for Thursday’s gas cloud “I wouldn't say the smell's worse but we’re having more side effects than yesterday" said Trish Wcdin a secretary at the school Wcdin said students with asthma were also having problems but none of the students were hospitalized State inspectors were monitoring the uir trying to figure out what is causing the' odor'said Carol for the Utah Division of Air Quality' " Correction Obituaries Reception date Julie Amell's and Jared Kirby's wedding reception is from 7 to 9 pm Saturday March 20 at the Hyde Park Civic Center 113 E Center St The date was incorrect in Sunday's Herald Journal although the date of their wedding was correct Robert H Olson Funeral 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